Evaluation of the national academy of parenting practitioners' training offer in evidence based parenting programmes
Year: 2012
Type: other
Abstract: Introduction 2 Ready, steady, go: Local authority readiness and the implementation of evidence-based parenting interventions 3 Service Agency Readiness and the implementation of evidence-based parenting interventions 4 Practitioner and programme characteristics and the implementation of evidence-based parenting interventions 5 Summary, recommendations and conclusion 6 References Executive Summary Background• The current coalition government recognises the great importance of good parenting for children's outcomes.It has commissioned several independent reviews that underline this.The Allen Review cogently argues the social and economic benefits that arise from early parenting interventions.The Field Review emphasises the potential for good parenting to overcome the blight of inter-generational poverty.The Munro Review notes that child abuse is an extreme form of poor parenting and that effective parenting programmes are needed to ameliorate matters.• A growing body of evidence suggests that when evidence-based interventions are implemented at scale with families that need them, significant populationwide benefits can be achieved.These benefits include significant reductions in school failure, youth crime, adolescent drug and alcohol misuse and child maltreatment.• The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP) was established in 2007.Its aim was to transform the size and quality of the parenting workforce in England so that evidence-based parenting programmes could be made available to families who need them.A key objective of this initiative was to provide key training to over 4,000 practitioners in one of ten evidence-based models. Evaluation aims and methods• This report describes findings from the evaluation of NAPP's training offer in evidence-based parenting interventions.• The evaluation's key objective was to understand the value and impact of the Academy's training programme as it was implemented.• A programme of evaluation was therefore designed to provide 'real-time' information on the progress of the training offer so that ongoing changes could be made within an action research framework.• Data collected through the evaluation included information about the number of practitioners trained, their skill level and whether or not they went on to deliver parenting programmes.• This data was collected through the training applications, as well as a series of follow-up surveys completed by practitioners immediately following their training and six months thereafter. Key findings1 This estimate is based on the calculation of an average of eight parents attending a group delivered by one practitioner -with each practitioner delivering at least two groups per year.• Further studies are also needed to determine the extent to which increasing the skill of staff in delivering evidence-based programmes leads to improved child outcomes and the cost benefit of this.
Authors: Kirsten Asmussen, T. H. Matthews, Katey Weizel, Neda Bebiroglu, Stephen Scott
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1597503604